This year’s Hobie 16 Nationals, originally to be held over the Easter weekend was moved to the following long weekend, and fortunately so as the country watched on while Durban endured severe flooding over Easter, and Mozambique was hit by Cyclone Kenneth, it’s second for the year. The Durban organisers promptly assured the entrants that […]

Doodle Dodds and Andrew Ward do it Again! Not satisfied with squeezing in a win at last week’s Hobie 14 Nationals over Hein De Jamer, Blaine “Doodle” Dodds (or is it “The Doddsicle” streaking past the rest of us?) served up a maestro’s performance with Andrew Ward this past weekend in Langebaan and won (once […]

Not even the withdrawal of both our first choice as race officer, Josh Kruyt due to work commitments and our protest chair prevented the 2019 Hobie 14 nationals from taking place. We were extremely fortunate when Craig Leslie stepped in to be Race Officer on Saturday and Di Hutton Squire took over for Sunday and […]

The Hobie 16 class is thriving in Western Australia and thirty-two boats contested the State Championships on the first weekend in March, hosted by Nedlands Yacht Club on the Swan River in Perth. Sailed in teams of two, the sixty-four sailors ranged from age 12 to 72. There are many couples and families sailing together […]

2019 Fiji Hobie Challenge The event will run from 7th to 18th August. The Oceania Championship (around the course/buoy racing) will also be sailed during this period and in between the Challenge expedition racing legs. Most of the rates are the same as last year … for Boat Charter and Entry Fees. There will be […]